I wrote the following essay for Emerging Proud, which supports folks with mental health challenges "coming out of the spiritual closet." Check out their work and continued offerings at emergingproud.com.

This is a great honor to be able to write something for Emerging Proud. When I think back on my story of awakening, I'm very careful to recognize that what I think of as “psychosis” and what I think of as “spiritual awakening” were never separate to begin with. The unity that I suddenly realized, the utter and complete wholeness of the universe and my place in it, was both excruciatingly painful and profoundly liberating.